Interesting replies...
For what it is worth - I've been on the code writing end - I do know and understand what it takes - BUT - Adobe has had several years to do fix Photoshop - Apple worked on the Intel switch for about 5 years before they changed processor - and - Adobe was informed about this along the line - I don't have the exact date - but it WAS well before Apple went Intel.
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Uh no. . .you are wrong. Adobe found out the Friday afternoon before the Monday, June 6th, 2005 Steve Jobs keynote where Steve stated Apple was switching to Intel. No, Adobe did NOT know before Steve sent a limo on that Fri afternoon to pick up Chizen and deliver him to Apple headquarters to be informed...hell, 98% of Apple didn't even know until that Friday, the weekend before the conference.
By my count that's 16 months...that's a far cry from "several years" as you state...
And, at that keynote, Steve Jobs said:
“Starting next year (2006), we will introduce Macs with Intel processors,” said Jobs. “This time next year, we plan to ship Macs with Intel processors (June 2006). In two years, our plan is that the transition will be mostly complete, and will be complete by end of 2007.”
That's what he said and that's what Adobe planned on...it wasn't Adobe's fault Apple had to move up the transition because FreeScale quit making G4 chips ad IBM told Apple to take a flying leap...
To write a Universal application would not take all teh resources Adobe has - and if they had worked on it concurrently with Lightroom - they would have had a universal version some time ago - instead they are unhappy with Apple's forey into what they see as THEIR market with Aperture - and are "punishing" Apple for it - and while doing so is pissing off a legion of Photoshop users...
That's pure crap...that's totally ignoring the fact that Xcode simply was not up to the task. And it has nothing to do with Lightroom since that was a Cocco app compiled on Xcode from the begining.
Adobe and Apple BOTH started developing their "apps for photographers" in early 2003-WELL BEFORE any of this ever got off the ground-except for Apple writting and compiling OS X is secret, to run on Intel-something the industry had no idea Apple was doing. That was a total shock.
According to mr Shewe - who seem to be very, very informed - obviously has an inside source somewhere - Adobe has had at least since sometime in 2005 to deal with this - and it is now something like what - at least a year and more later - and the word is MAY 2007 - oh sure - that's only TWO years to do something about it - they are getting right up there with Microsoft..
Uh, yes. . .I do have a source or two at Adobe and Apple as well. What's your point?
No. . .Adobe has had since LAST SUMMER to work on a UB version of Photoshop. . .which they couldn't even begin until Apple hit 2.14 with Xcode (go ask Apple why that was-they know).
Adobe made a plan, Apple changed the time frame. Adobe was right in the middle of a merger with Macromedia and Apple decides to switch to Intel. And YOU think Adobe is dissing their customers (well you) and you're pissed. . .well, imagine how Adobe feels.
Sorry. . .I just don't see Adobe as the bad guys here...